2.5 Masking and attention Before I summarise the material in this section, and we move on to consider attentional processes with clearly-seen displays, it would be appropriate to consider the relevance of the masking studies to the issue of attention. We began the whole subject by enquiring about the fate of material which was, in principle, available for processing, but happened not to be at the focus of attention. Somehow we have moved into a different enquiry, concerning the fate of material that a participant was
Learning outcomes After studying this unit you should be able to: understand different cognitive psychological aproaches used to examine such forms of attention as attention to regions of space, attention to objects and attention for action; summarise the different cognitive psychological approaches undera fairly abstract definition of the term; know how ideas about attention have changed and diversified over the last fifty years and how well they have stood up to ex
Introduction For many of us the concept of attention may have rather negative connotations. At school we were told to pay attention, making us all too aware that it was not possible to listen to the teacher while at the same time being lost in more interesting thoughts. Neither does it seem possible to listen effectively to two different things at the same time. How many parents with young children would love to be able to do that! One could be excused for feeling that evolution has let us down by failing
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Section 1.3 Case Study: extracted from Faludy, T. and Faludy, A. (1996) A Little Edge of Darkness, Jessi
Do You Have the Strength?
In this activity, students squeeze a tennis ball to demonstrate the strength of the human heart. Working in teams, they think of ways to keep the heart beating if the natural mechanism were to fail. The goal of this activity is to get students to understand the strength and resilience of the heart.
Magnetic Attraction
Students complete a series of six short investigations involving magnets to learn more about their properties. Students also discuss engineering uses for magnets and brainstorm examples of magnets in use in their everyday lives.
Introduction to Muscle Types and Skeletal Muscle
The first of 11 selected histology lectures and first of two PowerPoint files with slides for teaching muscle histology. Only slides containing illustrations and microphotographs are included. Although text slides are not provided, image slides featuring text are intact.
Intimal Thickening - A Response to Vascular Injury
This animation is a derivative work based on illustration and description of intimal thickening following vascular injury described in the book "Robbins Pathologic Bases of the Disease" by Cotran, Kumar and Collins (1999). It depicts the migration and proliferation of smooth muscle cells and elaboration of extracellular matrix leading to intimal thickening following vascular injury.
Medial Aspects of Cerebral Hemispheres
Anatomical structures of a dissected brain are identified in this third video from UCLA Interactive Neurosciences.
Fabric and Fiber - Quiz
Students will consolidate their knowledge of the fabric and fiber strand of the curriculum with a fun activity.
Creating the Hall of Planet Earth
This Web site tells the stories behind the making of the museum's Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth. Along with tracking the hall's creation, the following sections also tell the story of our planet's creation. What You See Here Is Out There introduces students to the five big questions asked by Earth scientists. The Man Who Knew a Mountain takes a look at how obsidian from the Medicine Lake volcano became part of the exhibit. Expeditions explains how museum expeditions sought the answers to the fi
1.5 Defining dyslexia The ongoing debate about dyslexia is reflected in the different approaches that have been taken to formally define it. Clearly this impacts on how dyslexia is defined in practice. The next three sections summarise how definitions of dyslexia have changed as our knowledge has increased. In short, there have been three main approaches to defining dyslexia: definition by exclusion, discrepancy definitions and the identification of positive indicators. The Joseph Bellamy House: The Great Awakening in Puritan New England Learning outcomes On completion of this unit, you should be able to: identify and discuss the issues that relate to the definition, explanation and remediation of ‘abnormal’ psychological functioning; understand the complexities involved in identifying, explaining and managing dyslexia. Original Copyright © 2002 The Open University. Now made available within the Creative Commons framework under the CC Attribution Introduction Dyslexia is a condition affecting literacy skills. This unit analyses how our image of normality affects the way we as a society define such conditions. You will learn how important it is to integrate the different psychological accounts of dyslexia in order to provide a full explanation of potential causes and strategies for remediation. This unit is an adapted extract from the Open University courseAuthor(s): Le potentiel pédagogique des nouveaux dispositifs de lecture
Lorenzo Soccavo, consultant en prospective du livre et de l’édition, dresse un panorama sur les nouveaux dispositifs de lecture et leurs apports pour la formation.
Après une introduction sur les technologies d’affichage de ces dispositifs et les grandes familles qui les composent, il présente, en s’appuyant sur des démonstrations, les premiers livres-applications pour l’acquisition de la lecture, les premiers livres numériques adaptés aux enfants en difficulté, et le Acknowledgements Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this unit: References How to Roast Pumpkin Seeds Diabetes
examines the life and times of the Reverend Joseph Bellamy (1719-1790), a preacher, author, and educator in New England. At the age of 20, Bellamy became the minister in Bethlehem, Connecticut. He and other ministers, spent most of 1741-1742 riding about New England preaching sermons meant to bring sinners back to the fold of the church. The movement, known as the Great Awakening, appealed particularly to working class people and spread throughout the northern and central colonies.
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This two minute video shows how to scoop out the numerous seeds in a carved pumpkin and how to roast them finely. The process involves salt and pepper after drying them completely for a day. A good activity around Halloween.
This two minute video is about diabetes and how it can affect your life and what you need to do to keep it a healthy lifestyle. Studies show that weight loss surgery may treat Type II Diabetes. Type II Diabetes is one of the
worst disorders because it may cause heart disease, and becoming blind. Type II Diabetes occurs when the body does not receive enough insulin or the body cells ignore the insulin. Many patients that have Type II Diabetes, a big option for the
